Currency Coming and Going​

• Helicopter money, literally (AVweb).
• A look at early Vermont banking (VT Digger).
• As the demonetization deadline passes, millions of Kenyan shillings remain missing (Ventures Africa). "Successful"? Kenyan livestock herders find their money is worthless (hivisasa). Kenya to decide how to destroy its old banknotes (Standard Digital).
• A numismatic talk by John Magoteaux at the Greenville, OH public library (Daily Advocate).
• Exploring the man on Japan's money (Nippon.com).
• Florida bar takes down thousands of dollar bills off its walls for hurricaine relief (Orlando Sentinel).
• Zimbabwe and the "cobra effect" (All Africa). The Metaphor is strong in this one.
• British subway shops refuse Scottish banknotes (Warrington Guardian).
• France trains Cuban dogs to sniff for cash (Yahoo News, video).
• The Norges Bank is retiring old 50 and 500 kroner banknotes (Drammen Live24, in Norwegian).
• An exhibition of Belarusian money at the Modern Belarusian Statehood Museum in Minsk (Belarus News).
• The history of Gandhi's portrait on banknotes (Entrepreneur).
• Enid Blyton and the politics of numismatic commemoration (Coinsweekly).
• An exhibition at Britain's Postal Museum looks back at the Great Train Robbery (inews). Here is the museum website (The Postal Museum).
• Fifty years ago, it was good bye to the 10-bob note (The Yorkshire Post).
• Fake news about India's R2,000 note (Boom Live).
• Hong Kong ATMs are running out of cash as residents prefer anonymous transactions, also crypto (beincrypto)
• Lots of Lats are still unaccounted for (The Baltic Times).
• Maybe this Japanese alligator was coin-operated (Kyodo News).
• Cash hoarding by households in Lebanon (Asharq al-Aswat).
• The unchanging U.S. $1 bill (considerable). At the Federal Reserve, a billion in unwanted dollar coins (Coin News).
• In Malta, scoopfuls of banknotes (Times of Malta)
• Turkish banknote aficionado wants to donate his Ottoman collection to the Presidential Library (TRT World).

     The Business of Collecting

• Two California numismatic associations have a joint venture (Numismatic News).
• Rezwan Razack and the currency portraiture of Mahatma Gandhi (The New Indian Express).
• Monetary conditions in German-occupied Guernsey (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Currency emissions of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Geldscheine-online, in German).
• Some printers' proofs of Civil War-era demand notes (PMG).
• A Falkland Islands rarity (PMG).
• PMG at Missouri's Coin Expo (Numismatic News).
• Amos Media to relocate its headquarters (Coin World).

     New Banknote Issues

• Central African Monetary Union to launch new currency series (Business in Cameroon).
• Who some Australians feel are on their new $20 note (News.com).
• Switzerland's ATMs do not like the new 100-franc note (SWI).
• More on the Polish security printing commemorative note (Numismag). And here (Coin World).
• New Bahamian $50 note now in circulation (MRI Bankers' Guide). And here (Banknote News).
• Cambodia's commemorative banknote to mark 15 years of the king's reign (MRI Bankers' Guide). And here (Phnom Penh Post). And here (Banknote News).
• Unfounded rumours that India was recalling its new Rs 2,000 notes (Catch News).
• Kenya's new notes are getting old in a hurry (Nairobi News).
• Zimbabwe plans new banknotes this November (Ventures Africa).
• Liberian Senate says no to new banknotes (The New Dawn). And here (Front Page Africa). Repercussions of the Kroll Report (All Africa).
• Australia's new $20 note is coming (Coinweek).
• Zimbabwe will introduce new coins and notes into circulation (Gambakwe). Made in China.
• Honduras denies plans to issue new 1,000 lempiras bills (Once Noticias, in Spanish).

     Selected Upcoming Shows/Conventions

• Numismata Berlin, Berlin, Germany, October 12-13, 2019 (Numismata).
• Whitman Expo, Baltimore, Maryland, November 14-17, 2019 (Whitman Expo).
• 38th annual Paris Paper Money Show, Paris-Bagnolet, France, February 8, 2020 (AFEP).
• XVI International Numismatic Congress, Warsaw, Poland, September 19-24, 2021 (INC). Yes, that year is 2021.

     Banknote, Security Printing, and Cash Management Industries

• Britain's Ministry of Defense solicits new concepts in banknote security (Public Technology).
• Spectra System's new service contract (Morningstar).
• Could you authenticate a banknote by just breathing on it? (Phys.org).
• De La Rue has a new chief executive (Insider Media). And here (Reuters).
• Reserve Bank of New Zealand addresses implications of falling cash usage (RBNZ).
• 450 years of papermaking in Königstein (Coinsweekly).